Gender and climate change: Do female parliamentarians make difference?

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Does women's political empowerment matter for improving the environment? A heterogeneous dynamic panel analysis

“…In addition, consequences of climate change are also likely to be gender differentiated, with women more disproportionately bearing the costs of climate change due to their “gendered labor and homemakers roles” (Seager et al, ). Thus, when women are politically empowered to exert their voice and influence, they may tend to take some stringent climate change policies to reduce the emission of carbon across countries, especially CO 2 (Mavisakalyan & Tarverdi, ), to protect our environment and realize sustainable development.…”

Individualism and Climate Change Policies: International Evidence

“…These arguments, taken together, suggest that a greater inclusion of women in policy-making acts as a catalyst for climate-friendly policies. More recently, Mavisakalyan and Tarverdi (2019) find that the fraction of seats held by women in national parliaments exerts a positive influence on the implementation of climate change policies throughout the world.…”

“…Therefore, I add fuel exports to the regression (column 4, Table 3). A final concern is that countries who are more vulnerable to climate variability may have stronger incentives to implement climate change policies (Mavisakalyan & Tarverdi, 2019). Therefore, I include an index of climate vulnerability in column (5) of Table 3.…”

“…Other scholars, however, put a premium on the role of trade openness and gender roles in strengthening the capacity to combat climate change (see, for instance, Neumayer, 2002b;Damania et al, 2003;Mavisakalyan & Tarverdi, 2019).…”

“…These cultural traits ultimately shape economic prosperity in the world by affecting innovative activities (Gorodnichenko & Roland, 2017). Recent studies find strong evidence that individualism improves the quality of governance (Kyriacou, 2016), and reduces corruption (Jha & Panda, 2017), income inequality (Nikolaev et al, 2017) and gender 2 There are few empirical studies on the determinants of the stringency of climate change policies (e.g., Fredriksson & Neumayer, 2013;Fredriksson & Wollscheid, 2015;Fredriksson & Neumayer, 2016;Ang & Fredriksson, 2017;Mavisakalyan & Tarverdi, 2019). 3 Specifically, if corruption, democracy and gender inequality matter for climate change mitigation, what further explains cross-country differences in these proximate determinants.…”